[46675] in Hotline Meeting
Your OLC question about "private_ws"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Cline)
Fri Feb 19 11:27:47 1999
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:27:44 EST
From: Jason Cline <clineja@MIT.EDU>
Hi -- I need someone to reinstall an SGI O2 workstation in 66-038.
Details are attached.
J. Cline <clineja@mit.edu>
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From: pipa@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:01:22 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199902191601.LAA25661@mushu>
To: "Jason Cline N2MTD" <clineja@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Your OLC question about "private_ws"
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Hi there. I am sorry that we were unable to answer your question before
you logged out. You asked olc>
>> Subject: locked out of an Athena O2 Workstation
>>
>> Hi --
>>
>> I was trying to set up new O2 Athena workstation in 66-038. While trying
>> to make it a private workstation, I managed to lock myself and everyone
>> else out of it (except for console logins). Seems I set NOCREATE when
>> I shouldn't have. To complicate matters, the standard entries (including
>> root) didn't get copied into /etc/passwd* before I locked myself out, and
>> now the operating system refuses to go into single user mode because it
>> doesn't know what shell to use for root.
>>
>> Could someone come with a boot CD and give us a new /etc/passwd and a new
>> /etc/athena/rc.config?
Since this is a private athena workstation, you will want to contact the
hardware hotline at x3-1410 or email them at hotline@mit.edu to ask them
to reinstall your workstation.
I hope that this helps. Since I believe I have answered your question
completley, I am going to mark it done and resolve it in the olc>
queue. Thanks for using olc>
Heather D Drake
Athena Consultant
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